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and fields were their companions and solace. For our 

 own part, we freely confess a great sympathy with these 

 generous and philanthropic ministers of nature, which, 

 raising themselves up among massive structures of brick 

 and mortar, appear waving in wide and extended beauty 

 over the tall roofs, as if to show that man and his Creator, 

 even where society would put them the farthest asunder, 

 need not be separated from each other. 



" 'Neath cloistered boughs, each floral bell that swingeth, 

 And tolls its perfume on the passing air, 

 Makes Sabbath in'" man's heart, "and ever ringeth 

 A call to prayer." 



The difficulty of transplanting some kinds of trees, has 

 induced some to imagine that this is the case with almost 

 every kind. There are particular seasons of the year, 

 when the most difficult may be successfully removed ; 

 while, to be sure, there are a few species, which do not 

 seem to do well if removed when of a size usually em- 

 ployed in transplantation. By proper effort, a tree of any 

 size may be transferred from one spot to another ; and as 

 to expense, it surely is far more rational to rear.up a noble tree, 

 as an article of beauty or ornament, than to erect very 

 many costly and useless structures, on which ingenuity 

 and money are lavished. Some of the best for successful 

 transplanting, under ordinary means, are also the most at- 

 tractive. For instance, the maples, of which the rock or 

 sugar maple is preeminently elegant; and so the white 

 maple, of rapid growth and prettiness of foliage, while the 

 bright blossoms and crimson seeds of the scarlet maple are 

 always admired. A smaller species, rising with a slender 

 trunk to a considerable elevation, is remarkable for the ele- 

 gance of its stem; we mean the moose-wood or striped 

 maple. Several species of ash, too, are generally over- 

 looked in arboriculture, while the beeches and chesnut, if 

 not so easy of culture, perhaps, yet repay any endeavor in 

 the beauty of their intrinsic merits. 



We have spoke of the value of catalogues of natural 

 productions, especially of plants. We have been gratified 

 with a local catalogue of this character, which we find in 

 Thompson's History of Vermont^ lately issued. This cat- 

 alogue* purports to be one comprising " the Vermont 



* A few of these catalogues were printed separately, for private distribu- 

 tion among the author's friends. 



